The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 27, 2022

Work No. 965. Half the Air in a Given Space

2008

Martin Creed

(British, b. 1968)

England, 21st century

Purple balloons, multiple pieces

Diameter: 28 cm (11 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2012.34

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

The installation of this work involves an equation ensuring that exactly half of the air in the room is contained inside of balloons.

Provenance
2008–2012
Artist's studio
2012–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Wallace, Miranda, ed. lit. 21st Century: Art in the First Decade. Queensland: Queensland Art Gallery, 2010. 93
Moll, Frank-Thorsten, and Ursula Zeller. Luftkunst (Air Art) Friedrichshafen: Zeppelin Museum, 2011. 17
Exhibition history

SUN Contemporary, "Platform Seoul", Seoul/KR, 24.24.2008

The New Art Gallery Walsall, "Party!", Walsall GB, February 12-April 18, 2010

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, "Martin Creed / Numbers", Moscow, November 4-December 5, 2010

Queensland Art Gallery, "21st Century: Art in the First Decade", Queensland, Australia, December 1, 2010-April 26, 2011

Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, 'Luftkunst / Air Art", Friedrichshafen/DE, February 4-May 1, 2011

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.34